<p>^ I agree. I also think that’s why students who like math (both male and female) are pushed towards engineering, even if a love of math isn’t going to be enough to make them successful engineers. You get such little exposure to engineering at most high schools that it’s hard to know if you’ve really got an aptitude for it in advance. And since you need strong math skills to be an engineer (you need more than that, but without beign good at quant stuff you won’t succed), that’s the indicator that most people focus on, because that’s the only one that most high school students display.</p>